British Palestine first travel document - OET
Article about: Hi, Thought of sharing this interesting early document. I came across an item that I believe to be the first passport or travel document issued by the British for Palestine, after liberation
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Re: British Palestine first travel document - OET
Neat document, thanks for posting it.
If I do some snooping around I may be able to find some documents that belonged to my Palestinian family from this time period. It would be neat to see.
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Re: British Palestine first travel document - OET
Very interesting pieces of history - I wonder what happened to him ?
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Re: British Palestine first travel document - OET
Have finally got a translation, of some sort, regarding this travel document, Ottoman. The photo applied doc is the laissez-passer.
Date from 1918 and not 1917 as I though first...
"The earlier document (31/1/1918) is an Ottoman government identity record issued to
Abra[ha]m Mordechai Haim (since the second document belongs to the same person,
here the name is wrongly recorded) by the Commander of the Nazreth Area and the
Deputy Chief of Comustibles in Palestine. The paper confirms the deferment granted
from military service to the said person, who had been assigned to the job of cutting
and transporting firewood for the Hijaz-Syria Railroad under the Military Transport
[authorities]. The handwriting on the upper left side states that it was reviewed (or
written) by the clerk of a certain Tahir Bey, an official who was in charge of 4 named
villages (3 of which, BTW, appear in a famous Hebrew song from the Mandate
pereiod).
The later document, with photo, is a travel certificate (Laissez Passer) issued in Haifa to Abra[ha]m
Mordechai, son of Haim Meikin (or Beikin) on 5/8/1918. The young man was 18 at the
time, born in Jerusalem, lived in Haifa, was a student, traveled to Syria on his own, by
train, for the purpose of tourism or medical treatment (could be read as either for
"circulation" (going around) or "teatment"). Details of his physical appearance are also
listed."
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